CVE-2022-38153Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Wolfssl

Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 31
Latest updateJan 12

Description

An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 5.5.0 (when --enable-session-ticket is used); however, only version 5.3.0 is exploitable. Man-in-the-middle attackers or a malicious server can crash TLS 1.2 clients during a handshake. If an attacker injects a large ticket (more than 256 bytes) into a NewSessionTicket message in a TLS 1.2 handshake, and the client has a non-empty session cache, the session cache frees a pointer that points to unallocated memory, causing the client to crash with a "free(

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

debiandebian/wolfssl< wolfssl 5.5.3-1 (bookworm)
Debianwolfssl/wolfssl< 5.5.3-1+2
NVDwolfssl/wolfssl5.3.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9cp4-7v5m-jx89: An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 52022-09-01
OSV
CVE-2022-38153: An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 52022-08-31

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Communications Risk Matrix: Policy (Apache Kafka) — CVE-2021-381532022-04-15
Debian
CVE-2022-38153: wolfssl - An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 5.5.0 (when --enable-session-ticket is...2022

🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Trailofbits
Keeping the wolves out of wolfSSL2023-01-12
Trailofbits
Keeping the wolves out of wolfSSL2023-01-12
CVE-2022-38153 — Debian Wolfssl vulnerability | cvebase